Montresor Discussion Questions

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1.I think that Montresor his most disturbing when he agreed that Fortunato would die of a cough because he was basically telling him that he was not going to die of a cough. “I shall not die of a cough,” Fortunato said. “True--True,” Montresor replied. 2.a. A weakness could be that he was proud of himself. “He prided himself on his connoisseurship in wine.” A strength could be his knowledge of wines. “...but in the matter of old wines he was sincere.” 3.a. Montresor had an inner hatred towards him from the injuries of Fortunato. “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could…” When he first found him around the carnival season, he was drunk. “He accosted me with excessive warmth, for he had be drinking too much.” He took…show more content…
“We came at length to the foot of the descent, and stood together upon the damp ground of the catacombs of the Montresors.” It seems like he hesitated for a while when he said, “We will go back; your health is precious. You are rich, respected, admired, beloved; you are happy, as once I was.” But after Fortunato saying that a cough would not kill him, Montresor gave him some wine. “The cough is a mere nothing; it will not kill me. I shall not die of a cough,” Fortunato said. “Drink,” Montresor said. Then again it seems like he hesitates to kill him when he said the dampness would make Fortunato sicker. “Come, we will go back ere it is too late. Your cough--,” Montresor said. “‘It is nothing,’ he said; ‘let us go on. But first, another draft of the Medoc.’” Montresor then put chains on Fortunato when they reached the place. “In its surface were two iron staples, distant from each other about two feet, horizontally. From one of these
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